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by venus 14y ago
Mine's even worse: http://f.cl.ly/items/3v2U1h1k1v1T3p453J3t/Image%202013.02.21...
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by venus 14y ago
Thanks for the reply. That's a good name, although I'd extend it to the "Jury of Murderers Fallacy". I think your example is subtly different though, and is similar to what I think of as the "You Don't Know What It's Like Fallacy". So named
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by venus 14y ago
> he's digging his way out of this particular PR hole Out of? Or into? I have to admit I like Musk a lot more when he keeps his mouth shut. With this and his ludicrous Boeing grandstanding, he is sounding less like a mature, visionary C
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by venus 14y ago
I think a more likely outcome is that the next person will think twice about reviewing a Tesla at all.
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by venus 14y ago
> But, most of all, we would like to thank our customers, who rallied immediately to the defense of Tesla and the electric car revolution, sending hundreds of heartfelt letters of support to The New York Times in the space of a few days
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by venus 14y ago
You seem to have missed the fact that this is a service . It's a SAAS targeted at businesses. The economics have little to do with iphone apps and desktop software. And complexity of software has no relation whatsoever to its utility. Runn
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by venus 14y ago
You've got to be kidding me. $10 a year may as well be nothing. I wouldn't do anything for anybody for $10/year. I probably couldn't even be bothered invoicing you. You're right that it's a very simple product, though. $5 a month with a 20%
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by venus 14y ago
That's a good point, but I think that present advantage will turn against China later on when all those only children find themselves having to support two elderly parents, a situation permeating the society on a massive scale. As they say,
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by venus 14y ago
> Communicating well takes an extraordinary amount of time and the speed with which most internet communications take place precludes quite a bit of the work that should go into it. Good point, well taken, but only applies to casual con
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by venus 14y ago
> Tell you what, if you think that isn't torture, then you go get caned Yeah man. Why don't you say "Tell you what, if you think prison isn't inhumane, you go spend 25 years in prison" Way to demand an unreasonable precondition to progr
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by venus 14y ago
You exaggerate. It's not a slap on the wrist, no, but calling it torture is a very long stretch indeed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore#Medical_tre...
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by venus 14y ago
Sham elections? What are you talking about? Corporal punishment and sham elections go hand in hand? And have it your way. I'd prefer to ride in clean, non-vandalised trains, and the 20 year old would-be vandal was beaten after their first i
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by venus 14y ago
Fair enough. Good advice. I'm trying not to come across as some pro-authoritarianism masochist in this thread but am I really alone in thinking that there's some merit in deciding a set of laws, then enforcing them? Overstay your visa? Is t
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by venus 14y ago
Corporal punishment of petty crimes == fascism. Is that your thesis? I believe you to be quite misinformed in your understanding of fascism, freedom, and everything else. As far as I can see, the only "freedom" on offer in the society you h
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by venus 14y ago
> You are essentially subject to all manner of ridiculous punishment for what would be considered minor or non-offenses in most free countries Like vandalism and petty theft. And just look at how successful those "free countries" have b
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by venus 14y ago
And? How does that have any bearing on the story at hand whatsoever? As an entrepreneur who has seriously considered moving to singapore in the past I am much more interested in what can happen when you do obey their (quite reasonable) la
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by venus 14y ago
Well. If the meteorite was partially composed of water, which was then vaporised off during the atmospheric ablation, then it might indeed be partially contrail! A pure water meteorite hitting the atmosphere would be contrails all the way;
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by venus 14y ago
I was thinking it might be the actual sound of the disintegration. It doesn't sound like echoes to me. And, obviously, it is only just arriving, straight after the shockwave.
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by venus 14y ago
I wouldn't think they are contrails. One would expect them to mainly be smoke and dust from the disintegration/combustion/ablation during the descent.
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by venus 14y ago
> He got caught embellishing facts for a pre-determined narrative Pre-determined narrative? Huh? Now you're embellishing the facts.
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by venus 14y ago
+1 to this. For new projects I'd probably just go with 4.0 beta though, it's almost ready...
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by venus 14y ago
Meh. I don't use attr_protected anyway, and neither should anyone else. Security 101 - whitelist, don't blacklist. That said the JSON issue looks worrying, so an update and redeploy is necessary.
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by venus 14y ago
> I am not sure if you've noticed, but the US and Israel have some of the most advanced militaries in the world Hilarious. Well that explains those quick, decisive victories in Iraq and Afghanistan! > If the US were at war with Iran
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by venus 14y ago
I endorse this work of fiction and encourage everyone to read it. At the very least it is an approachable, engaging and thought-provoking "what-if" scenario.
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by venus 14y ago
That's ruby's heredoc syntax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_document I had no idea it could be nested like that and I've been using ruby for 8 years. Crazy!
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by venus 14y ago
I'll be the first to agree Dyson is somewhat overpriced but I don't think their products warrant this level of animosity. Those vacuums may be expensive, but they work very well. I've not encountered this "Henry" unit but I've used Miele an
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by venus 14y ago
Remember the posts on HN a few days ago how we're all just as poor and working even harder as we were 50 years ago? This is why. Scramble to make the money to buy the food whose shelf cost is 90% marketing and 5% the cheapest, crappiest ing
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by venus 14y ago
Thanks. Excellent article.
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by venus 14y ago
Does this work, at all? I get nothing but "There was an error - please double check the URL and try again". There is no-one in the support chat provided. As far as I can tell it simply does not work. And, to head off the inevitable comments
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by venus 14y ago
Does eBay seriously not verify email addresses!?

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